Istanbul -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Crowds of mourners gathered Sunday to bury a young man in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir after clashes the previous day between Kurdish protesters and Turkish security forces turned deadly .

A member of parliament from a pro-Kurdish political party told CNN at least two people were shot dead in Saturday 's clashes , with at least two more in critical condition .

The violence unsettled a peace process between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels , who have been waging a guerrilla war in the predominantly Kurdish southeast for 30 years .

The Diyarbakir governor 's office put the blame for the unrest squarely on what it described as `` attackers , '' according to a statement released online Saturday .

`` As a result of an armed attack on security forces ensuring security on the Diyarbakir-Bingol road , two attackers were injured . One attacker was airlifted to Dicle University by military helicopter but lost his life despite all efforts , '' the governor 's office said .

But Sebahat Tuncel , a parliament member from the pro-Kurdish Peoples ' Democratic Party , blamed the deaths on the Turkish government .

Tuncel told CNN that locals had been demonstrating for more than two weeks against the construction of new outposts for Turkish security forces near Lice .

`` A week ago I was there and what the people there were telling me is ` We do n't believe they -LRB- the government -RRB- are earnest about the peace process . People who are honest about the peace process would not be building more outposts , ' '' said Tuncel , speaking by phone from the funeral of Ramazan Baran . Baran , 24 , died in Saturday 's clashes .

For more than a year , the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in negotiations with Abdullah Ocalan , the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party , or PKK . The Turkish state , as well as the United States and the European Union , have long designated the PKK a terrorist organization .

The negotiations brought a relative lull to violence that has claimed the lives of more than 30,000 people in southeastern Turkey over the last three decades .

The Kurds are Turkey 's largest ethnic minority . They were long the target of discriminatory policies , which banned the use of the Kurdish language and even Kurdish names .

Since his party was first elected to power in 2002 , Erdogan has implemented a number of reforms , including creating a Kurdish-language state TV channel , removing the ban on the Kurdish letters `` q , '' `` x '' and `` w , '' and allowing Kurdish-language education in some private schools .

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At least two people shot dead in Saturday clashes , lawmaker from pro-Kurdish party says

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Local governor 's office says `` attackers '' responsible for violence

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But lawmaker from pro-Kurdish party blames Turkish government for deaths

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Violence unsettles peace process between Turkish government and Kurdish rebels